Simply Better Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...

Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...

Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...

Danny O'Brien remains confident that Star Witness can win the UK July Cup at Newmarket - but he's praying the track is not badly rain-affected. The 'wet' is being blamed for Star Witness's 3rd plac...

The Argument for ShortnessAt Randwick on Saturday there was a horse in the first race that simply stood out.Yet he started at $3.20, and there was a bit better on offer from various bagmen. He'd bl...

Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...

Disturbing news from the US overnight relating to the pending closure of the famous Hollywood Park racetrack

Tony Vasil doesn't normally throw his horses in at the deep end but it was easy to see why he ran two-year-old filly Psychologist on debut in the Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield.The Choisir filly...

A muscled-up Triple Honour is back at Chris Waller's stable with the trainer excited by both his appearance and his prospects.Waller said a tilt at a second Doncaster Handicap victory was on the ag...